Just the images, no more. Innocent children as this slaughtered. Who knows her fate now? And to attempt any assistance to such dispossessed will incur the wrath and skewed justice system of the accomplice.

Yes, shadows of four little boys playing football is all that remained from that airstrike, and will remain in our memories – as Obama played, what, at golf? Or made some facetious remark on some matter demanding an adult response?

A newly reached cease-fire in the Gaza conflict collapsed soon after it came into effect on Friday as the Israeli military said that two soldiers had been killed and a third apparently captured by militants who emerged from the southern Gaza Strip.

Not to skip a beat we look at the BBC, the ‘Beeb’ of Jimmy Savile fame, and in the fifties, of the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iraq Iran fame. It headline, Gaza militants ‘seize Israeli soldier’ as ceasefire ends. Deaths of innocents? Not important, Palestinian.

And what else do we discover? The Nobel Peace Prize Winner US President waxes poignant about the slaughter. Or does he?

US President Barack Obama called for the militants to free the soldier.

He said he “unequivocally” condemned Hamas for capturing the soldier “minutes after a ceasefire had been announced”.

The headline could have been tightened up for greater accuracy? Instead of ‘new’, ‘more hysterical’ would have been on target. And unbeholden to any special interests, the writer proffers.

Here are a few questions you won’t hear asked of the parade of Israeli officials crossing US television screens during the current crisis in Gaza:

What would you do if a foreign country was occupying your land?

What does it mean that Israeli cabinet ministers deny Palestine’s right to exist?

What should we make of a prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who as opposition leader in the 1990s addressed a rally under a banner reading “Death to Arafat” a year after the Palestinian leader signed a peace accord with Israel?

So what do we have? That missing soldier, now more important than scores of innocent Palestinians slaughtered and injured, and who may just be British. Then again he could be both. Or more. Some spokesman or the other, Australian, then Israeli. Sort of like the Israeli Ambassador to the US. USA, then Israeli citizen.Or both? All so confusing?